Tottenham Hotspur

[Fosterbloke]

[Shaggy]

Is Lamela really **** or just poorly utilised á la Masch at WHam? Some people on here were creaming themselves over him.

He looked a top quality player at Roma. Apparently he is hating it over here. He cried when he left Roma and just cannot settle at all. Already some talk that he wants out.

The rest of their signings had and do have question marks in terms of ability, I think. This guy, I don't think so. I reckon he'll go back to Italy or to Spain and show his worth.

[Shaggy]

Tim Sherwood picked a laughable team. 442, Adebayor and Defoe up front, Lennon and Chadli wide with SIGURDSSON and Dembele centre mids. Fancy going 442 with those as your midfield two. Sherwood is Mike Bassett

[rodo]

i am buzzing watching them and that smug cunt levy imploding

[Fosterbloke]

They have an 'easy' run of league games now (18pts) but I think they'll come out of it with about 8pts.

[The_weatherman]

They have an 'easy' run of league games now (18pts) but I think they'll come out of it with about 8pts.

I think they'll lose against Southampton this weekend, Pochettino is clever and sets up his team so well, I think Sherwood will not be a match for him, specially if he sets up with 4-4-2.

Apparantly AVB didn't want to sign four of the summer signings either, Erikson, Lamela, Chadli and Chirices I think.

[dom9]

- Spurs imploding completely. New manager has a serious job somehow rebuilding the team chemistry.

Corrected.

[Fivex]

Tim Sherwood picked a laughable team. 442, Adebayor and Defoe up front, Lennon and Chadli wide with SIGURDSSON and Dembele centre mids. Fancy going 442 with those as your midfield two. Sherwood is Mike Bassett

Just read some quotes about him wanting the Spurs job.

"I know a certain way I need to play," he said. "I think I can manage men and deal with them and be honest with them.



He's an idiot.

[BubbaZanetti]

Levy has to pull a rabbit out of the hat very soon as they’ve got Arsenal coming up after Xmas in the FA cup.

If their league form continues to suffer and they go out to the gooners there may well be mutiny at the lane.

[Shaggy]

This implosion is so timely. Their fans have been getting cocky as ****. Finished above us for four years running. Obviously won **** all in that time but in my experience their fans had become unbearable. Back in your boxes you ****in muppets.

[Chazza]

I think they'll lose against Southampton this weekend, Pochettino is clever and sets up his team so well, I think Sherwood will not be a match for him, specially if he sets up with 4-4-2.

Apparantly AVB didn't want to sign four of the summer signings either, Erikson, Lamela, Chadli and Chirices I think.

Revealed: The FOUR signings axed AVB didn't want at Tottenham as he chased big deals for Villa, Hulk and Moutinho


Andre Villas-Boas did not approve four of Tottenham’s seven summer signings and asked chairman Daniel Levy not to buy them.

Villas-Boas objected to the acquisitions of Erik Lamela, Nacer Chadli, Vlad Chiriches and Christian Eriksen, a quartet who cost Spurs a total of £56million, but his judgment was overruled.

The Portuguese manager asked his chairman to buy Hulk, Joao Moutinho and David Villa as he planned for life without Gareth Bale.


None of these signings materialised and the £110m recruitment drive lies at the heart of a power struggle inside White Hart Lane which culminated in the sacking of Villas-Boas on Monday.

Of Tottenham’s seven recruits, Villas-Boas wanted only Paulinho, Etienne Capoue and Roberto Soldado. The rest were identified by Levy and technical director Franco Baldini.

Although the manager approved of Levy’s decision to appoint a technical director, the relationship between Baldini and Villas-Boas soon disintegrated and the Portuguese was left with players he had not approved.


Villas-Boas did want Willian from Anzhi Makhachkala but Tottenham were beaten at the 11th hour by Chelsea in the race for the £30m Brazilian.

Spurs then turned to Eriksen and paid Ajax £11.5m for the Dane, who started the season brightly but he was another player the manager did not want. More annoyingly for Villas-Boas, several of those he requested failed to appear.

Hulk had been desperate to leave Zenit St Petersburg and join with Villas-Boas, who he had worked with at Porto. Moutinho was also keen to be reunited with his former Porto boss, despite the collapse of a move to Spurs in August 2012, which left Villas-Boas furious.


The midfielder did exit Porto last summer and moved to Monaco along with James Rodriguez in a double deal worth £60m.

Hulk and Moutinho would have been expensive but Villa moved from Barcelona to Atletico Madrid for only £2m and has scored six in his last seven La Liga games.

Of his four unwanted signings, Lamela proved the most contentious, mainly because he cost a club-record £30m and as a left-footed winger came the closest to a direct replacement for Bale.

Lamela made two Premier League starts under Villas-Boas, along with four appearances from the bench, and is yet to score in the competition.

Eriksen and Chadli have not scored in the Premier League either, starting five and six games respectively, while Chiriches has started six league games and scored in the win over Fulham.

Villas-Boas was asked, after the Liverpool defeat, if he had chosen all seven signings and while he resisted the temptation to make his point, his hesitation spoke more loudly than words about the communication breakdown. A few hours later he was clearing his desk.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2526099/Andre-Villas-Boas-wanted-sign-Hulk-David-Villa-Joao-Moutinho-Spurs-did-not-want-four-seven-summer-signings.html

[Fredo]

If that's true, then he's been very hard done by. Also, expecting them to click and be challengers straight away after an influx of so many players at once, was preposterous. Levy should have been sacked, not AVB.

[Chris]

Sherwood :

"I've got to be in the frame, but it's not my decision, unfortunately," said the 44-year-old ex-Tottenham player.

Haha! And he's saying that after a defeat at home to West Ham. Arrogant cunt.

[The_weatherman]

If that's true, then he's been very hard done by. Also, expecting them to click and be challengers straight away after an influx of so many players at once, was preposterous. Levy should have been sacked, not AVB.

I know It's beautiful

[chadrtc]

This implosion is so timely. Their fans have been getting cocky as ****. Finished above us for four years running. Obviously won **** all in that time but in my experience their fans had become unbearable. Back in your boxes you ****in muppets.

This!